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Military and War Trivia - Distinguished Service Cross, reinforcements, the front, George Custer, West Point, Pershing, World War, artillery, Hyman Rickover, Civil War and more!Trivia questions about military and war things like battles, wars, armies, captain, officer, general, George Custer, Hyman Rickover, West Point and more! |
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Miscellaneous military and war trivia questions and answers.What American actor was given the British Distinguished Service
Cross for commanding a flotilla of raiding craft for Admiral Louis
Mountbatten's commandos during World War II? What great military leader was an accomplished yo-yo player? Who was Emil R. Goldfus of Brooklyn, New York? What was the first war in which soldiers wore machine-made
uniforms? At the Battle of the Marne in 1914, how were French
reinforcements rushed from Paris to the front in order to help fend
off the advancing Germans? Who signed Major Clark Gable's army discharge papers in 1944? How did the army of Persian kin Xerxes I cross the
Hellespont--the strait between Europe and Asia--in 480 B.C.? Who was the youngest U.S. Army officer ever to be promoted to
general? How many stars were on the American flag during the
Spanish-American war in 1989? For what did General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing win a Pulitzer
Prize in 1932? Following the British defeat at Dunkirk in June 1940, who made
the stirring broadcast vowing that "we shall fight in the fields and
in the streets...we shall never surrender"? What was the inspiration for the name Rough Riders--the name of
the elite fighting unit Theodore Roosevelt organized for the
Spanish-American War? How many years did Hyman Rickover, the man credited with
propelling he Navy into the nuclear age, serve on active duty? How many oarsmen were carried aboard triremes--the fast-moving
warships that helped the Greeks rule the Mediterranean during the
fifth century B.C.? How many pounds of feed were consumed daily by the 5,000 horses
that pulled the artillery for Napoleon's Army of the North in1815?
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